[douche]

Silverlight may be the one glaring exception to that rule that I can think of. I don't think even IE or Edge support that anymore, which makes it dead.

I had an ex-girlfriend whose employer made a big bet on Silverlight for their web app platform... in 2012. Having to rewrite it all in HTML5 and JS a year later almost put them under.

[youdontknowtho]

Actually, this is really weird, but yeah, you can still use Silverlight. Until very recently the inTune portal still used Silverlight.

I dig what you are saying though. They had some very confused messaging about the web as a platform for a long time. They finally stopped the BS, though, and have gone whole hog on the web.

[jmkni]

Couldn't they have ported to WPF with a lot less effort?

[douche]

Possibly, but this was, if I recall correctly, sort of a web-based MOOC thingy, so being browser-based was important.

[emodendroket]

Silverlight was cross-platform.